Solomon smith



S. SMITH. Press fdr. Dyeing.

l., m.. fd s Patented Feb. 21, 1854.

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SOLOMON'SMITH, OF ACTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SMITH `& SGHOALER;

PARTICOLORING1VIACHINE Specpation of Letters Patent No. 10,560, datedFebruary 21, 1854.

T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON SMITH, of Acton, in the county of Middlesexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Presses for Dyeing Goods or Fabrics in Stripes; and I do herebydeclare that the same is fully described and represented in thefollowing specifica' Ytion and' the accompanying drawings, letters,figures, and references thereof` Of the said drawings, Figure l, denotesa side elevationv of one of my improved dyef ing presses. Fig. 2, yis atop view of it. Fig. 3, is al central, vertical and longitudinal sectionof it.

On the eleventh day of December, A. D. 1849, a patent was granted in theUnited States to Edward Brierley, for an improvement in apparatus fordyeing. The said apparatus was a dyeing frame `so constructed as notonly to contain the cloth, but when dipped into the coloring liquid, itprevented the said liquid from penetrating those portions of the clothwhich it might not be desirable to have colored, and at the same timeexposed to the coloring liquid the remainder of the cloth, or suchportions as it was desirable to have colored. One if not the principalfeature of novelty in this apparatus of the said Brierley consisted inthe employment of vertical frames on or against the two ends of therpile of horizontal frames on the mainy dye frame, for the purpose ofprotecting from contact with the dyeing liquid, those parts of thecloth,

which might bey directly strained over against or on the ends of thehorizontal strips of the main dye frame.

The object of my invention is to dispense with such end frames, and themode of arranging the cloth around the ends of the strips of the dyeframe.

In my improved dye frame,.the cloth is arranged entirely within theframe and does not pass around or against its ends. For this purpose, Idivide into two parts a, b, each of the wooden horizontal frames orlayers for holding the cloth excepting that at the top andthat at thebottom of the pile or those marked I, and VI, in Fig. 2. Where the twoparts, a, and b, come together I make one lap by the other so as toenable the cloth to be passed between them.

A top view of two of the parts, a,b, is given in Fig. t.

The cloth is laid between two of the layers in such manneras to enableit to be car ried up betweenthe two parts, a, b, of the next layer andso on from the lowest to the highest layer of the series, I, II, III,IV, V, VI. Thus it will be seen that the cloth ,is not carried aroundthe outer ends of the layers or frames and therefore diiiicultiesattendant on such anarrangement of it are` obviated. The fra-mes yareconfined tothe cloth by pressure inone direction only,the frames forholding the cloth being Varranged between the top and bottom press,frames- A, B, which are drawn together by means of screw rods, 0, c, 0,and hand nuts, d, cl, al, in Lthe usual way. InFigs. l and 3, of thedrawings, the cloth is represented by red lines. y

yThe end boards, seen at f, j, are simply for gaging or guiding theframes orlayers over one another.

'My improvement has many advantages over thevdye frame of the saidBrierley.`

It enables the dye to obtain a better or free access tothe exposed partsof the cloth and gets rid of the difficulties experienced when the clothis carried around the outer ends i of the different layers. Y

I therefore claim-'- Y l. My improvement of dividing each'of thehorizontal layers or frames into two .sec-k n. tions, a, b, and carryingthe cloth from the p .lower to the upper sides of such sections betweenthe contiguous inner ends ofsaid.

sections. And in combination with the said modek of using sections Vandcarrying the cloth between them. y y ,y

2. I claim the improvement of making the f .y

end of one section lap by that of the other, so that the samecontrivances used to com# Witnesses:

W INTHRor FAULKNER, W. S. RoDrMoN.

SOLOMON SMITH. f

l95l press the several frames, together or down 'n upon oneanother mayalso operate to com-

